The Anticipation Builds

The Election is now less than a month away, and soon all four major parties will be engaged in verbal fisticuffs over policy and the future of Ontario. Having just spent the weekend discussing our platform and the future with other Green Party candidates, I can tell you that I am really charged! This year, the Green Party is going to shake everything up.

If you think my enthusiasm isn't warranted, you only need to check the news that came out on Monday: the Green Party of Ontario was polling at around 8% – capturing disillusioned Liberal voters – and the reason is because we are on the right side of all the issues; because we can create a strong, prosperous and sustainable future for Ontario. It may be a hard fight, but its still within our grasp.

Take, for instance, the poorly conceived Liberal plan to invest $40 billion of taxpayers money into the nuclear white elephant. To build a new nuclear plant, the province is expected to invest another $40 billion in infrastructure – now we're up to $80 billion… out of a total Provincial budget of only $90 billion. We've never had a nuclear power plant built on budget, and it would still take 12 years for it to even be completed, well past the date we are expected to need more power in Ontario. In contrast, the State of California managed to eliminate the need for three power plants simply by regulating the amount of energy that electronics used while off! With the stroke of a pen, neither business nor taxpayers felt the sting of creating a cleaner, more efficient environmental policy. This is Green Leadership.

I will grant one thing to John Tory: Leadership does matter. I'm just not sure that either the Liberal Party nor the Conservatives knows what that means.